Vestfjorddalen

Vestfjorddalen is a valley in Tinn Municipality in county, . The 30-kilometre long valley stretches from the lake westwards past , , and to the lake in the west.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Valley with an elevation of 583 metres
  • Description: valley in Tinn, Norway
  • Also known as: “Vestfjord Valley”, “Vestfjordalen”, and “Vestfjorddal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glupen and Dal Church.

Nature reserve
Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a nature reserve.

Church
Photo: G.Lanting, CC BY 3.0.
is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in county, . It is located in the town of . It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. is situated 3 km southwest of Vestfjorddalen.

Power station
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The Mår Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Tinn Municipality in county, Norway. It operates at an installed capacity of 180 megawatts, with an average annual production of about 1,145 gigawatt-hours. is situated 3 km southwest of Vestfjorddalen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rjukan.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a town in the Tinn municipality of , . The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.

Vestfjorddalen

Latitude
59.89917° or 59° 53′ 57″ north
Longitude
8.71973° or 8° 43′ 11″ east
Elevation
583 metres (1,913 feet)
Open location code
9FFCVPX9+MV
Geo­Names ID
3132020
Wiki­data ID
Q1777539
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vestfjorddalen” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Chinese: “西峡湾谷”
  • Danish: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Irish: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Japanese: “ヴェストフィヨール谷”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Norwegian: “Vestfjorddalen”
  • Swedish: “Vestfjorddalen”

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